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Manual installation of SharePoint 2013 PREREQUISITES

I attempted to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2. It didn't go so well. The main problem is that you can’t install the SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites using the standard install wizard. It would fail every time it tried to configure IIS.

I did finally get it to work, but it was not trivial at all. Here is how to install the prerequisites manually.

INSTALL WINDOWS ROLES/FEATURES

You need to install the following roles and features:

Roles:

Application Server

Web Server (IIS)

IIS 6 Management Console

Features:

ASP.NET 4.5

Windows Identity Foundation 3.5

Open Server Manager

Click on “Add roles and features”.

On the “Before you begin” page, click “Next”.

Select “Role based or feature based installation” and click “Next”.

If it isn't already selected, select “Select a server from the server pool”, and the server that you are currently working on. Then click “Next”.

When the “Add features that are required for Web Server (IIS) Support?” dialog pops up, click on “Add Features”.

Click “Next” again to go to the next page.

From the “Web Server Role” page, click “Next”.

From “Select role services”, click “Next”.

On the “Confirm installation selections” page, I suggest that you check “Restart the destination server automatically if required”.

Click “Install”.

Wait for feature installation to complete. When it does, you can click “close”.

Reboot if it doesn't do it automatically.

DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL SHAREPOINT PREREQUISITES

Craig Lussier has written three scripts to download and install the SharePoint 2013 prerequisites, but only the download script works on Windows Server 2012 R2 (they probably work fine on vanilla 2012), because the install scripts use Prerequisiteinstaller.exe. So take advantage of the download script, and do the rest manually.